FINOCCHIO Giovanni

Giovanni Finocchio is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences, University of Messina, Italy. He got his PhD (XVIII cycle) in “Advanced Technologies for Optoelectronics, Photonics and Electromagnetic Modeling”.
Since 2014, adjunct research at the “Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia” at the Rome2 section (Viale Vigna Murata).
Since 2018, he is co-director of the “Joint Laboratory UNIME-SINANO of PETAscale computing and SPINtronics – PETASPIN”.
He is also visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Northwestern University (NU) (https://www.northwestern.edu/), Evanston, IL (USA) from February to July 2019 and from May to August 2022.
I’m co-authors of more than 180 papers published in well-established international journals. A full list of publication can be found at https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=eKDbn-oAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate.
GF was co-inventors of 5 patents and co-founder of two spin-off companies.
Responsible for the SpintronicFactory (http://www.spintronicfactory.eu/) at the University of Messina and coordinator leader of the Transverse Theme 2: Design and Modelling.
GF has more than 10 years’ experience in dissemination activitie as chair, co-chair or member of the scientific committee. He is also the president of the Petaspin association (www.petaspin.com).

Funding
Principal Investigator at University of Messina for the project “Low Power Spintronics Wireless Autonomous Node (SWAN) Integrated Circuits Developed Via Spintronics Technology Accelerator Platform” SWAN-on-chip code 101070287 funded by the European Union.

Principal Investigator (National Coordinator and Unit coordinator at University of Messina) for the project “The Italian factory of micromagnetic modeling and spintronics” PRIN 2020LWPKH7 funded by MIUR.